Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWasV3pf4is Chairman Goodlatte: As the Obama Administration comes to a close, Americans’ freedom and prosperity is once again threatened by one of the most abusive features of modern bureaucracy—“Midnight Regulation.” “Midnight regulation” is one of the most vexing problems in Washington’s overreaching regulatory system.  Administration after administration, there is a spike in rulemaking activity during the last year of a president’s term—particularly between Election Day and Inauguration Day, but even in the months before then. Th

Washington, D.C. – The House Judiciary Committee has announced its schedule for the week of September 26-30, 2016. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2710:00 a.m. | Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security Hearing on: New Orleans: How the Crescent City Became a Sanctuary City Witnesses:

• The Honorable Jeff Landry, Attorney General, Louisiana Department of Justice
• The Honor

Chairman Goodlatte: Today’s proceeding marks the fourth in our series of hearings focused on competition in the health care marketplace.  Now, the Committee turns its attention to the pharmaceutical industry and the drugs that are used in the treatment of opioid overdose and addiction. Competition in the addiction medicine markets, like the pharmaceutical market as a whole, involves a delicate balance.  On the one hand, we want to encourage pharmaceutical companies to invest in expensive research and development in order to bring innovative and life-saving drug

Washington, D.C.—Today House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and the bill’s sponsor Rep. Mike Bishop (R-Mich.) issued the following statements upon the passage of the Mobile Workforce State Income Tax Simplification Act of 2015 (H.R.

Chairman Goodlatte: The Mobile Workforce State Income Tax Simplification Act provides a clear, uniform framework for when States may tax nonresident employees who travel to the taxing State to perform work. In particular, this bill prevents States from imposing income tax compliance burdens on nonresidents who work in a foreign State for fewer than 30 days in a year. The State tax laws that determine when a nonresident must pay a foreign State's income tax and when employers must withhold this tax are numerous and varied. Some States tax income earned wit

Washington, D.C. —House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law Subcommittee Chairman Tom Marino (R-Pa.) issued the following statements on today’s approval by the House of Representatives of the “Require Evaluation before Implementing Executive Wishlists (REVIEW) Act of 2016” (H.R.